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... Nah, just kidding. No, hang on, I wasn't... Anyway, if I thought it was useful to keep all my sprites, etc. on the internet I would, but I have a folder and some rewritable disks for that. Plus I don't see me getting copyright on any of it by doing this (unlike Writing.com which gives you copyright over anything you put up there [which means free copyright on ten stories/whatever ]), so no thanks. Nice idea though

Artist's Creative Commons Copyright

Most artist know this copyright law, anything that you made instanly has been copyrighted by Creative Comms License.
No one can steal your work if you claim the CC License. As long as you can prove when you created it (easy when it's some sort of digital work). So if someone claims your work as your own, you can show them the CC License and should be able to back off.

Now, listen to this though:
Orphan Art. This is when a third party finds a peice of work and want to use for their advertisment. If the third party cannot find the original publisher in a rational ammount of time (minimum of 6 months) then the third party can use the work as their own.
So if you don't want people to use your work, make sure that someone can contact you.
Also, if it's fan artwork, you have to state that it is so and who the original Trade Marks are and who owns their Copyrights.

So if you make a Animated Gif of Pikachu doing karate, the CCL could resemble this something like this:

e.g.:
"Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States
Pikachu Karate Copyright to Leo33wii
Pikachu is a Trade Mark of Nintendo/GameFreak and partner companies
Pokemon and all other related work is Copyright of Nintendo/GameFreak and all other related companies"

This says "I made this. I don't want people to use it to gain money, unless you ask me and I say 'yes.' Nintendo and GameFreak and anyone else who made pokemon and pikachu are the original creaters of the character I am using here. Please, do not sue me!!"

Pokemon drawing

Hi everybody ! This is a pokemon that I have created ! His name is Genoturles. I have written every thing about him already. His story, his stats. He even have a first form that I would like to show you after reading your critics.I hope you like him.